Well, I start out the year with a loss. At least is can't go down from here. Mariners 0-1.

"No, no!" said the Queen. "Sentence first–verdict afterward.""Stuff and nonsense!" said Alice "The idea of having the sentence first!""Hold your tongue!" said the Queen, turning purple."I won't!" said Alice."Off with her head!" the Queen shouted at the top of her voice."

Feeling better today. And as for the Utley Rule in the Jay's game. If they are going to call it that way baseball is quasi doomed. Replay in every sport is just ludicrous. It is a game. Live with the umps. There is hardly anything left to talk about around the water cooler.

"No, no!" said the Queen. "Sentence first–verdict afterward.""Stuff and nonsense!" said Alice "The idea of having the sentence first!""Hold your tongue!" said the Queen, turning purple."I won't!" said Alice."Off with her head!" the Queen shouted at the top of her voice."

Vin Scully is doing his last game today. I think I will listen. The great ones are all leaving. I am sure some are in the making...just not my generation. Baseball is better because of its broadcasters.

As a kid I would listen to Rollie Truit and later Bob Blackburn broadcast the Portland Beaver in the old Pacific Coast League, which at that time there were no major league teams on the West Coast but I think the PCL was as good then as both the AL and NL. (that is why people my age on the West Coast are generally either Yankee or Dodger Fans...I have always liked the Yankees.) Anywyay. Tr'uitt and Blackburn would tell how the broadcasted the away games. Essentially, they just made them up. They would get a report every five minutes or so..sometimes longer and they would call the balls and strikes, outside, low and inside, just like it really happened. Slap a glove and crack a board and you have a ball and bat....great memories.

"No, no!" said the Queen. "Sentence first–verdict afterward.""Stuff and nonsense!" said Alice "The idea of having the sentence first!""Hold your tongue!" said the Queen, turning purple."I won't!" said Alice."Off with her head!" the Queen shouted at the top of her voice."

I love minor league baseball. Always entertaining. Relaxed. Sit back have a dog or two and watch a zilion things you never see on TV.

"No, no!" said the Queen. "Sentence first–verdict afterward.""Stuff and nonsense!" said Alice "The idea of having the sentence first!""Hold your tongue!" said the Queen, turning purple."I won't!" said Alice."Off with her head!" the Queen shouted at the top of her voice."